Space Adventures #3

The Time Skipper Travels to Ancient Rome

[writer unknown] and artist

Release: November 1952
Format: Comic Book
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: YA and Up
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

At the end of the Time Skipper’s first adventure, Hap Holliday and the professor were hoping to convince Queen Ula to accompany them back to the past, and it seems they succeeded, since Ula is with them on the splash page. But in their return trip (via the ever-staunch Timejumper), they overshoot their mark and end up in ancient Rome where the trio meets Cleopatra and tries to save Caesar.

— Michael Main

Write Caesar a letter in your own hand, inviting him here tomorrow and we’ll have Ula deliver it. That will keep him from going to the Senate chamber!

DEBUT

“The Time Skipper Travels to Ancient Rome,” in Space Adventures 3, November 1952.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Ancient History (3000 BC to AD 476: Bronze/Iron Ages): Ancient Rome

Time Travel Methods

Time Ships: The Timejumper.

Themes

Fix History!: Save Caesar!

Real-World Tags

Fictional Tags

Hap Holliday, Time Skipper

Groupings

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From near the Brass City, in the far future ⋙ to ancient Rome, 14 March 44 BC. Note: Hal, Queen Ula, and the professor.
From an unknown time ⋙ to to the “modern age”.